Making Your Calendar Work for You - Church Leader Insights

The below excerpt is from my book The Renegade Pastor’s Guide to Time Management.

It is easier today than ever before to keep a single calendar that covers every aspect of your life. You don’t even have to be technologically savvy to make this happen. Here are a few tips for making your calendar work for you:

Enter everything in your calendar right away. If you delay, you will forget.
Check your calendar daily. Before you go to bed at night review the day, week, and month ahead so you won’t miss anything.
Set reminders if you use a digital calendar. Those reminders are just one more way to make sure you stay on track.
Make sure you schedule the important recurring personal events of your life. Be sure to reserve your daily quiet time, your weekly Sabbath, your date night with your spouse, and annual vacations.

Just think, with one calendar you will never again have to miss out on an event because you were committed during the same time slot to something else. This makes you look like a leader who has things under control.

– Nelson Searcy and Richard Jarman

The above excerpt is from pgs. 61 of The Renegade Pastor’s Guide to Time Management.

Time is your most important God-given resource no matter how hard you work, you can’t make a day last longer than twenty-four hours. By mastering a set of proven time-management principles, you can regain control of your life. It is possible to manage your time so that you can stay on top of the never-ending demands of being a pastor, nurture your congregation, spend quality time with your family, and take care of your physical and emotional needs. Become the pastor God has called you to be.

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Nelson

About Nelson Searcy

Nelson Searcy is an experienced church growth strategist, pastor, church planter and coach, consulting with churches around the world. As founder of Church Leader Insights and the Renegade Pastors Network, he has personally trained more than 3,500 church leaders in over 45 denominations through live events, seminars and monthly coaching. Nelson is also the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.” He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 18+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life, Ministry and The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and At the Cross with the People Who Were There. He and his wife, Kelley, have one son, Alexander.